Description
Activation time (UTC): 2017-05-31 10:33:00
Event time (UTC): 2017-05-24 18:30:00
Event type: Flood (Riverine flood)
Activation reason:
Monsoon rains caused severe flooding and mudslides in western and southern Sri Lanka. The death toll has climbed to more than 200 with 94 people still missing in the country’s worst torrential rains since 2003 that displaced nearly half a million people.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 5
Grading products: 0
Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.
Contact
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2017): Floods in Sabaragamuwa/West, Sri Lanka (2017-05-31). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/72a32520-6cef-4112-9dc6-ddea92b8cb29
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR205 Flood LKA Mapping Rapid Mapping Sri Lanka
Data access
All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.
Spatial coverage
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|---|---|
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Lineage information
No additional information
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-19
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2017-05-31
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR205
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/72a32520-6cef-4112-9dc6-ddea92b8cb29
- Popularity
-